As AIPAC
Strolls into Town,
Politicos Line Up to Kiss the Pinky Ring
By Kurt Nimmo
Wednesday March 07th 2007, 7:28 pm
Leave it to a newspaper founded by Baron
Black of Crossharbour, aka Conrad Black the neocon, in its desire to diss
Democrats, to demonstrate there is absolutely no difference between Republicans
and Democrats.
“The Democratic-controlled Congress is moving to outflank both the Bush administration and the United Nations with the toughest set of sanctions against Iran that have ever been proposed,” reports the New York Sun. Democrats in control of the corporate and “special interest” whorehouse on the Potomac have introduced “legislation to sanction foreign companies that do business with Iran and to re-impose the import restrictions,” just in time for the convergence of AIPAC, the Bwana of “special interests,” that is to say hijacking government policy and siphoning off billions of dollars to the outlaw state of Israel.
“The goal of the sanctions is to deny Tehran funding that could be used to support terrorism and attacks on American troops in Iraq or to build nuclear weapons or missiles,” fantasizes Eli Lake. As we know, Iran is not building nuclear weapons, or at least there is a complete lack of evidence of this—outside the feverish imaginations of neocons far and wide—and there is even less evidence Iran is attacking American soldiers in Iraq. However, none of this matters, as the corporate media now reports such as fact, thus making it fact in the minds of millions of Americans, chumps who will be duped into attacking Iran, as that is what AIPAC and the Israelis want.
Of course, as AIPAC convenes, our “representatives” will be required to pay homage, that is if they wish to remain “representatives.” “The activists who will be pressing the new bill are coming to Washington for the annual convention of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, where the House speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat of California, is scheduled to give her first major speech on Middle East policy as the House leader. Both the Republican and Democratic leaders of the House and Senate will make speeches at the event, which is also expected to draw presidential candidates such as Senators Clinton, Obama, Biden, and Brownback. Senator McCain is said to be likely to attend as well.” In other words, one is not considered a presidential candidate unless he or she kisses the pinky ring of AIPAC and pledges loyalty to AIPAC and Israel.
“Yesterday, Aipac spokesman Josh Block said the lobbying push this year has three priorities. To start, the group will try support ‘continued U.S. aid to Israel that helps strengthen American interest in the region by ensuring that our ally Israel remain strong and secure in it’s tough neighborhood.’ That priority is important because the ten-year agreement signed between President Clinton and Prime Minister Netanyahu that phased out the economic assistance element of the $2.4 billion in annual aid Israel receives as a condition of its peace accord with Egypt is set to expire. Today Israeli and American diplomats are negotiating new terms of how the American assistance will be spent.”
Of course, U.S. aid to Israel does anything but “strengthen American interest in the region,” in fact it does quite the opposite. As for Israel’s “tough” neighbors, we can assume this is primarily a reference to Hezbollah, an organization that would not exist if Israel had not invaded Lebanon on numerous occasions. As any resident of southern Lebanon will tell you, for every action there is a reaction, and Hezbollah was a reaction to Israeli brutality.
“Mr. Block also said organization’s activists will be urging lawmakers to withhold aid from ‘going to support or legitimize a Palestinian Authority dominated by a terrorist group, Hamas, which refuses to recognize Israel, renounce violence or abide by previous agreements with the Jewish State.’ That issue is particularly tricky for the Bush administration today because the Palestinian Arab president, Mahmoud Abbas, is currently in negotiations with Hamas, a State Department designated foreign terrorist organization.”
Never mind this “terrorist group,” initially funded and supported by the Israeli government, was elected by the Palestinians, and as such it is quite natural for Mahmoud Abbas to negotiate with them. Not that it matters, as it will be business as usual in the world’s largest open-air prison—staggering unemployment, malnutrition, and poverty will continue to grow exponentially, as planned. It is “tricky” because the United States still props up a crumbly facade, acting like they actually envision a Palestinian homeland, when in fact this “homeland” is such in the same way Bophuthatswana was a “homeland,” actually a contrived Bantustan. AIPAC and Israel would have the Bush administration do away with this fanciful fig leaf altogether and get down to the business of killing more Arabs.
It is interesting to witness to the go-around between mega-multinationals such as Dutch Shell and the AIPAC neocons in Congress. “If Dutch Shell moves forward with its proposed $10 billion deal with Iran, it will be sanctioned. If Malaysia moves forward with a similar deal, it too will be sanctioned. The same treatment will be accorded to China and India should they finalize deals with Iran,” Democrat Tom Lantos admonished. Lantos is of course the chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, or maybe it should be renamed the AIPAC Committee on Foreign Affairs.
In addition to fronting the neocon agenda, the Bush administration is all about the neoliberal side of the coin, that is to say allowing corporations to do whatever the heck they want, including investing in Iran, as “free trade” (as in the freedom to loot and plunder) has no conscience, even when AIPAC comes a’calling. “For Aipac to endorse the legislation this year could place the bipartisan lobby on a collision course with a Bush administration that has used earlier bills supported by Aipac to sanction Iranian banks and front companies,” the New York Sun continues. In other words, for the AIPAC plan to sanction Iran to work—sanction is just another word for embargo, and once upon a time the act of embargoing a country was considered a declaration of war—the neolib bankers will need to take it on the chin, or rather in the pocketbook.
Neolib influence over the Bush administration is obvious, as undersecretary of State for political affairs, Nicholas Burns, member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the fascist Order of St. John, “said he supported the new sanctions in general, but that administration would oppose the loss of waiver authority because it would have the effect of forcing America to sanction its allies,” in other words it is unacceptable to the neolibs, as banks and multinational corporations are the only “allies” that matter.
Finally, as a demonstration how long the AIPAC arm stretches, consider, as PNACer Zalmay Khalilzad prepares to participate “in a meeting of ambassadors and diplomats in Baghdad that will include both Iran and Syria,” the prospect of “Interpol recommending arrest warrants for former Iranian officials in connection with the bombing of a Jewish cultural center in Argentina.” Israel blames Hezbollah, Syria, and Iran for the bombing, naturally depending on the direction of the political wind, while others, including the Argentinian Norberto Ceresole, blamed Shin Beth.
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